DeepL NMT for Arabic

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Dear Community! 
 A question to those using NMT offered by DeepL Pro. 
 Not so long ago the free on-line version of DeepL included Arabic language, however, Trados insists that this pair does not exist and, therefore, shows an error when trying to add this provider to the project settings. How come? Paid version is behind the free on-line one? 
 
 What about LW? Does it offer Arabic? 
 Thanks in advance!

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Yulia Kovalskaya 
 I think, although I am checking with the developer, that the problem is related to this notice in the DeepL API documentation: 
 As of January 2024, Arabic (AR) is supported as a source and target language for text translation, but it is not yet supported for document translation. Therefore, Arabic has not yet been added to the /languages endpoint. We will add Arabic to the /languages endpoint after document translation support is added. 
 Because we never know when they add new languages until someone complains we use this endpoint to try and make sure we are always automatically ahead of the game. But sincethey ave not added Arabic to this endpoint yet we still don't know. 
 So if I'm right our options are these: 
 
 wait until DeepL add it to their endpoint and you'll automagically get it or 
 do some additional work to add Arabic manually for the approach DeepL have taken as a workaround 
 
 Once we have checked the problem we'll plan in the work around our current workload to deliver whatever is necessary and see who gets there first. My preference is DeepL just add it of course because then we don't have do anything... it'll just automagically work! 
 Yulia Kovalskaya said: What about LW? Does it offer Arabic? 
 Of course.

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DeepL NMT for Arabic

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